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How CAN we play with CARS?
HopeCrash
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To be honest, I think cars will be added to the game when the time will come. Tho we will not be able to see our Sims actually traveling from destination to destination (which does not bother me. It annoys me in TS3), maybe travelling, especially to certain destinations, will affect the Sims in different ways.
For example - Sims traveling to San Myshuno will get an angry Moodlet because they haven’t found parking lot (a known problem in big cities). Or Sims traveling from Windenburg to Strangeville could get a bored moodlet from the very long drive.
I think it can upgrade the gameplay around cars and traveling in general.
Because we’re not "present" with our Sims while traveling, I think the travel options can be expanded and varied, and can add interest and a little bit depth.
I mean - NO MORE FREE TRAVELING!
Sims who can afford a taxi can get to their destination faster and more pleasantly. Of course the price of the taxi will depend on the distance from destination to another. Your Sims don’t have an extra Simoleons for a taxi? Take a bus - it's cheaper! But also a longer ride!
Maybe Sims who own cars could work as drivers? A kind of Uber service?
I think it can add to the realism of the game. No more Sims being sent from place to place in a second. It’s can also effect on townies, which means no more Bella Goth in EVERY WORLD! what do you think? Do you like my ideas? Let me know (:
For example - Sims traveling to San Myshuno will get an angry Moodlet because they haven’t found parking lot (a known problem in big cities). Or Sims traveling from Windenburg to Strangeville could get a bored moodlet from the very long drive.
I think it can upgrade the gameplay around cars and traveling in general.
Because we’re not "present" with our Sims while traveling, I think the travel options can be expanded and varied, and can add interest and a little bit depth.
I mean - NO MORE FREE TRAVELING!
Sims who can afford a taxi can get to their destination faster and more pleasantly. Of course the price of the taxi will depend on the distance from destination to another. Your Sims don’t have an extra Simoleons for a taxi? Take a bus - it's cheaper! But also a longer ride!
Maybe Sims who own cars could work as drivers? A kind of Uber service?
I think it can add to the realism of the game. No more Sims being sent from place to place in a second. It’s can also effect on townies, which means no more Bella Goth in EVERY WORLD! what do you think? Do you like my ideas? Let me know (:
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Npc vehicles like the maid/ butler car, police car, firetruck, mail truck, ice cream van and so on makes the game more alive.
The teens learning to drive from either parents or a driving teacher their getting driver's license.
Teen Sims being able to drive to school.
All car interactions as in Sims 2:
Listen to radio. Woo-hoo ,make out, sit and talk and go for a spin.
Proper animation for opening the car door and getting in.
Carpool vehicles for work that evolve as you get promotions in the different careers.
Garage doors and driveways.
Tools to make carparks.
Mottorcycles.
Sims being able to open the car door for other Sims as a romantic interaction.
Sims being able to gift cars that come with a big riddon that can be removed.Great for story telling like a Sim got a car for their sweet 16.
Jeeps, limos, trucks, motorbikes with optiom for 2 sims to ride and vans.
Older model cars from 18th and 19th century. Futuristic cars and ones that are modeled after present day car (tesla).
Fixer upper cars that should come with a mechanical skill and mechanic career.
Very customizable car seats, colors, license plates and wheel. Usable trucks could function as an inventory but have animation that looks like your Sims are packing stuff into the trunk.
Road trip rabbit holes you can send sims on and they will come back with mood let's and items in their inventories.
Taxi services _Uber
Buying plane tickets to travel to destination worlds and having to board a helicopter or plane to get there.
I wouldn't take kindly to the game slapping me with outrageous travel costs or bad moodlets/motives just because it gets ideas about where it thinks my worlds are.
Cars are so much more than "move across the map faster" objects, and OP's idea about moodlets is great (although I find moodlets a little bland to be honest).
More Whims related to moodlets would be great. A Sim that's tense because they couldn't find a parking spot in San Myshuno could get a Whim to buy a coffee from the coffee stand to calm down, or a Sim bored from the commute could get a Whim to do something fun in whichever neighborhood they've arrived in.
Let's say you've driven to Willow Creek from Strangerville. You're bored, so you get a Whim to "Dance Your Troubles Away at The Blue Velvet".
Maybe your social need takes a hit from being cooped up in a cheap car with your kids, so you get a Whim to "Vent About Family to Mortimer Goth", prompting you to visit a Sim, in this case Mortimer, who lives in Willow Creek.
Little things like that, where you're encouraged to interact with the world you've visited, would be awesome.
There is so much gameplay with cars, besides the “traveling” animation.
I remember when “Late Night” EP came out for TS2, and they introduced cars for the first time in the game - IT WAS FREAKING EXCITING! And with @Zinarchan ideas, i think cars would fit perfectly to Romance EP
As for cars, maybe upgrading cars or buying fancier ones would allow less negative moodlets and some positive ones, from having good entertainment systems and comfortable seats, for instance.
Maybe those lot challenges that they mentioned in the new EP could apply on cars?
You can hope but I don't think they match a country pack somehow.
I don't think we should get rid of fast travel or add costs to it, but add benefits to using cars instead if you want to travel with them like giving you fun for example.
I also hope that we will be able to repair them and customize them, they could build a whole pack based around you playing as a car mechanic.
Maybe an update where we can decide the distance between worlds by ourself so you can “combine” worlds as your choosing, as @EnkiSchmidt saying with San myshuno and Del sol valley. We could set distance between worlds by number 0-5 where 0 is the same world and 5 is very far away (and finally Mt Komorebi could be used as a real “vacation” world – no more random willow creek citizen or Judith Ward in the slopes haha!). And where some transportation options isn´t possible if the distance is very far (no bicycling between worlds with distance 5, please!).
I really love the idea with transportation moodlets. The distance numbers (1-5) could affect this, and also the transportation option (having a cheap / expensive / upgraded car = Mechanic skill). They could also be options like taking a taxi / bus / train (pay for a cheap/expensive seat) that could give specific moodlets. Would love if we could choose world for rabbit hole careers (business/salary person/education/etc) so it could give a specific moodlet for travel between home and work (take the bicycle if near or join the carpool haha!).
LIFE STRUGGLES PACK
If we could define the distance ourselves, then I wouldn't mind a more complex travel system.
Plus, making out in cars was a fun interaction that should definitely return.
Does anyone at all like the kids just vanishing off to school instead of being driven by their parents or taking the bus. Sims going on dates and showing up on foot and fully grown teens never learning to drive is just weird to me.
I think that after this kind of an update, EA can realise an EP that focus around cars and automobiles, with a new world that have many driveable roads (like open water in sulani)
About open water - they also need to update other worlds with open water feature.